{"product_id":"wild-mind-wild-earth-our-place-in-the-sixth-extinction","title":"Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction","description":"\u003cb\u003eExploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, \u003ci\u003eWild Mind, Wild Earth\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event--this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual\/philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Mind, Wild Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet by reestablishing a deep kinship between human and earth: the insights of primal cultures and the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these insights have become well-established in the West over the last two hundred years, through the work of poets and philosophers and scientists. This offers marvelous hope and beauty--but like so many of us, Hinton recognizes the sixth extinction is now an inexorable and perhaps unstoppable tragedy. And he reveals how those primal\/Zen insights enable us to inhabit even the unfurling catastrophe as a profound kind of liberation. \u003ci\u003eWild Mind, Wild Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable and revitalizing journey.","brand":"David Hinton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43507166544099,"sku":"9781645471479","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9781645471479-us.jpg?v=1667842539","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/wild-mind-wild-earth-our-place-in-the-sixth-extinction","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}